Dr. Alex Wang on Political Legitimacy and Environmental Protection in China

Dr. Alex Wang on Political Legitimacy and Environmental Protection in China

Dr. Alex Wang, Sachin Desai, and Jisung Park discuss recent shifts in Chinese political priorities, and prospects for balancing environmental protection and economic growth in China. [Continue]

Dr. Leana Wen: Are current doctor-patient relationships unsustainable?

Dr. Leana Wen: Are current doctor-patient relationships unsustainable?

Dr. Wen and Jisung discuss concrete steps that both patients and doctors can take to bring back the lost art of correct diagnosis. [Continue]

Dr. Katharine Wilkinson on Faith-Based Environmentalism

Dr. Katharine Wilkinson on Faith-Based Environmentalism

What is faith-based environmentalism, and how might it transform the sterile political divides of American climate politics? [Continue]

World Bank Chief Economist on Democracy, International Aid, and African Development

World Bank Chief Economist on Democracy, International Aid, and African Development

Is Development Aid effective? Or does it merely line the pockets of corrupt bureaucrats? World Bank Africa's Chief Economist Shanta Devarajan offers his insights. [Continue]

Paul Herman of HIP Investor Inc: Can Investors Achieve Human Impact and Profit at the Same Time?

Paul Herman of HIP Investor Inc: Can Investors Achieve Human Impact and Profit at the Same Time?

Paul Herman, Founder and CEO of HIP Investor Inc., on what it means to be an HIP investor — one whose portfolio achieves both human impact and profit. [Continue]

Knut Haanaes of BCG: Why Should Businesses Care about Sustainability?

Knut Haanaes of BCG: Why Should Businesses Care about Sustainability?

Knut Haanaes, Global Head of Boston Consulting Group's Sustainability Practice, on the business side of the sustainability coin. [Continue]

Kristen Sullivan on Investing for Impact

Kristen Sullivan on Investing for Impact

Kristen Sullivan of Deloitte’s Global Sustainability & Climate Change services group talks about “impact investing." [Continue]

Nicholas Kristof on Empowering Women for Development

Nicholas Kristof on Empowering Women for Development

New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Nick Kristof talks about women's rights, girls' education and sustainable development. [Continue]

Professor Jeffrey Sachs on Putting the US Economy Back on Track

Professor Jeffrey Sachs on Putting the US Economy Back on Track

Jeffrey Sachs discusses his new book, The Price of Civilization, and the origins of America's current economic and political woes. [Continue]

Professor Richard Lazarus on The Puzzle of American Climate Politics

Professor Richard Lazarus on The Puzzle of American Climate Politics

Professor Lazarus of Harvard Law School talks about the puzzling history of climate politics in the US and suggests some structural and cultural reasons that climate policy has proved so politically poisonous in America. [Continue]

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I can remember when I prepared to take the exam for Bronx Science, I took the train down from Harlem, which I hadn't left much, to Manhattan. You could tell the level of investment in Manhattan was so much greater. Even as a twelve year old, it shocked me.

Rakim Brooks on Urban Poverty and Environmentalism

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